Reuters Dubai Kuwait-based telecommunications provider Zain will launch its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of its Bahraini unit next month, it said yesterday, in what would be the first listing on the kingdom’s bourse since 2010. The subscription period for the IPO will run from September 2 to September 16, with shares priced at 0.19 dinars ($0.50) each, Zain said in a stock market filing in Kuwait, adding the offering was open to retail investors in Bahrain as well as institutional Read more [...]

Talented long course pro Alice Hector is the latest Brit to announce she will be on the startline for the historic and inaugural Challenge Bahrain race set for 4th December 2014.   Hector will be looking to compete for the mouth-watering $500,000 prize pot in what is now one of the biggest prizes in the sport. Having shown good form with early and mid-season wins at The Bastion and Israman, Alice will be looking to carry on those winning ways in Read more [...]

Manama, Aug. 4. (BNA) – Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport (SCYS) and President of the Bahrain Olympic Committee Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa launched, in the presence of the SCYS Deputy Chairman and President of the Bahrain Athletics Association Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the fifth Youth City 2030, organised by the General Organisation for Youth and Sport (GOYS) as part Read more [...]